Guide to the Santa Cruz Woman's Club Records MS.073
UCSC OAC Unit
University of California, Santa Cruz
2006
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz 95064
speccoll@library.ucsc.edu
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Santa Cruz Woman's Club records
Creator:
Santa Cruz Woman's Club
Creator:
Saturday Afternoon Club (Santa Cruz, Calif.)
Identifier/Call Number: MS.073
Physical Description:
10 Linear Feet
10 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1907-1982
Abstract: This collection contains scrapbooks,
minutes, treasurer's report and yearbooks of the club.
Physical Location: Stored offsite at NRLF: Advance notice
is required for access to the papers.
Language of Material:
English .
Access
Collection open for research.
Acquisition Information
Gift of the Santa Cruz Woman's Club in 2004.
Organization History
The Santa Cruz Woman's Club was organized in 1907 as the Saturday Afternoon Club. The
founders were Mrs. M. Tanner Gushee [Minnie M. Tanner], Mrs. J.P. Twist, Mrs. W. H.
Williamson [Grace E DeLamater], Mrs F. W. Swanton [Stanley Pope Hall] and Mrs. Ella Vivienne
Noe Phillips. Mrs. Alexander McLean [May McLean] served as the first President from
1907-1909. The club became affiliated with the California Federation of Women's Clubs in
March 1908 and with the national organization, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in
March 1912. The Santa Cruz Woman's Club incorporated in 1954.
At the end of 1926, the name was changed to the Santa Cruz Woman's Club. According to the
1927-1928 Yearbook, Twentieth Program Year: "This is the close of the first decade of the
local Woman's Club. For nineteen years it has been valued and loved as the Saturday
Afternoon Club. But a decade brings changes. The automobile and highway development have
made it possible for sons and daughters to come home for the week-ends, and for old friends
to meet again. Our hills and beaches have their own magnetism and our hospitable club
members found it necessary to be in their homes over the weekends. So at the close of the
nineteenth year the members voted to change the name to the Santa Cruz Woman's Club, and the
meeting days to the second and fourth Thursdays."
Santa Cruz Woman's Club gives scholarships, and supports various philanthropies, such as
the Veterans and active military with Christmas gift bags. They are also a social club with
quarterly meetings, social programs and activities from September through June.
Preferred Citation
Santa Cruz Woman's Club records. MS 73. Special Collections and Archives, University
Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Finding aid revision statement
This finding aid was revised in the Reparative Archival Redescription Project in 2021-2022.
Previous versions of this finding aid are available upon request.
Related Material
MS11 - California Federation of Women's Clubs records
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains scrapbooks, minutes, treasurer's report and yearbooks of the
club.
Use Restrictions
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Reproduction or distribution of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women -- California -- Societies and clubs -- History
California Federation of
Women's Clubs
Santa Cruz Woman's Club
Saturday Afternoon Club (Santa Cruz, Calif.)
box-folder 1:1
Saturday Afternoon Club Constitution & By-Laws
March 7, 1925
box-folder 1:2
Land ownership papers
ca, 1924-1982
box-folder 1:3
Clubhouse sale papers
ca. 1959-1982
box-folder 1:4
Clubhouse inventory
1954-1962
box-folder 1:6
President's letters, New Year's letters
1942-1964
box-folder 1:7, 10
Awards, Certificates, Proclamations, Resolutions
n.d. ca. 1955-1983
Box 10
75th Anniversary Resolution by Honorable Sam Farr 28th Assembly
District
March 23, 1982
box-folder 1:8
Annual State-wide Art Exhibits
February 10-24, 1935 February 9-23, 1936
box-folder 1:9
CFWC programs held in Santa Cruz
1922 1925 1926 1929 1948
box-folder 1:10
CFWC & GFWC programs/yearbooks
1923-1984
box-folder 1:11
The Communicator - monthly newsletter
1970-1971 1981-1982
Scope and Contents note
v.1:1 (Nov. 1970) - 1:7 (Apr. 1971); v.12:1 (Sep. 1981) - 12:5 (Jun 1982); v.13:1
(Aug/Sep 1982 - 13:3 (Oct. 1982)
box-folder 1:13
Unidentified minutes & notes
n.d.
box-folder 1:14
Photographs
ca. 1950-1980
Scope and Contents note
5 - b/w 8x10s; 1 photocopy
box-folder 2:1-6
Minutes - Saturday Afternoon Club
1908-1926
box-folder 2:1
Sep. 12, 1908 - May 25, 1911
box-folder 2:2
Oct. 7, 1911 - May 22, 1915
box-folder 2:3
Oct. 2, 1915 - Oct. 4, 1919
box-folder 2:4
Oct. 4, 1919-May 11, 1923
box-folder 2:5
Oct. 6, 1923 - Jun 5, 1925
box-folder 2:6
Aug. 6, 1925 - May 8, 1926
box-folder 3:1
Jun. 12, 1926 - Jan. 5, 1928
Scope and Contents note
The club changed its name to Santa Cruz Woman's Club at end of 1926 (the close of its
19th year)
box-folder 3:1-5
Minutes - Santa Cruz Woman's Club
1927-1984
box-folder 3:1
Jun 12, 1926 - Jan 5, 1928
Scope and Contents note
The club changed its name to Santa Cruz Woman's Club at end of 1926. Starting in 1927
the club was known as the Santa Cruz Woman's Club.
box-folder 3:2
Business meetings
June 13, 1928 - April 7, 1932
box-folder 3:3
Jun 2, 1932 - May 7, 1936
box-folder 3:4
Feb. 6, 1975 - Sept. 9, 1982
box-folder 3:5
July 13, 1982 - June 14, 1984
box-folder 4:1-7, 5:1-2
Financial records
1908-1981
box-folder 4:1, 3-4, 6
Treasurer's Ledgers
1908 - 1938 1971 - 1973 January 1969 - May 1971
box-folder 4:5, 7
Treasurer's Reports
June 1, 1971 - May 31, 1977 September 1, 1978 - April 30,
1981
box-folder 5:1
Check registers
1915 - 1926 1926 - 1938
box-folder 4:2, 5:2
Financial Secretary
1925-1982 January 1969 - May 1971
box-folder 6:1
Saturday Afternoon Club book
1907-1926
General note
Yearbooks bound into a single volume
box-folder 6:2
Clippings scrapbook
1924-1982
Box 7
Yearbooks (unbound)
1924-1982
Box 7
Saturday Afternoon Club
1922-1926
Box 7
Santa Cruz Woman's Club
1927-1942 1943-1944 1946-1947 1948-1970
1978-1979
Box 9
Publicity scrapbook
1955-1956
Box 10
"Yearbooks" scrapbooks
1926-1965